An automatic car wash consists of 3 processes: washing, rinsing, and drying. The first two processes are composed of 1 machine for each process, while for the drying are 3 people who do this work. On average, a car arrives every 10 minutes. For the washing process, it takes an average time of 5 minutes, while for the rinsed it takes 4 minutes. Each person in the drying section can serve up to 3 cars per hour.

a) What is the percentage utilization of each station?

b)On average, how long does it take for a car to be completely washed?

c) Could only 2 people be used for drying to reduce costs?

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a At this automatic car wash the washing station has 100 utilization The first tw... View the full answer